Siwash the Duck during the Battle of Tarawa. (USMC photo) The Battle of Tarawa was 76 hours of pure death and destruction. In 1943, 18,000 United States Marines duked it out with more than 2,600 ...

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – U.S. Marines with 2d Marine Regiment, 2d Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force commemorated the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa, at Camp ...

I’ve long been an aficionado of World War II history, and a sucker for decennial anniversaries. So I didn’t want to let the 80th anniversary of the underappreciated Battle of Tarawa pass unremarked.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (WITN) - Marines at Camp Lejeune paused on Tuesday to remember the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Tarawa. The 2d Marine Regiment started the day with a 10-mile hike and ended ...

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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - A sergeant from Mississippi was finally laid to rest 80 years after his death in World War II. Sergeant Harold Hammett left Hattiesburg for San Francisco in 1940.

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) — Seven decades later, American WWII servicemembers remain in unmarked, forgotten graves. They’re halfway across the world – some 7,200 miles from the hallowed ground of Arlington ...

Last week the Navy and the Army moved up to Japan’s outer doorstep in the Central Pacific (see map). Simultaneously, a new Central Pacific Command was created; at its head Pacific Commander in Chief ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HILLSIDE, Ill. — The remains of a Marine who ...

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